Levin Interview

• First transmission: 7.40 pm 23/5/81 BBC2 Television
• Duration: 30 minutes
• Repeat(s): 4.50 pm 2/12/82 BBC2
• Series: The Levin Interviews
• Presenter: Bernard Levin
• Director: Christopher Lewis
• Producer: John Shearer
• Transcript: BBC Written Archives
• Recording: BBC film library (NBS F105R); BLSA Tape V2660; soundtrack BLSA Tape 6408W

A Month in the Country

Personal Impressions

• Interview on IB's book of that title (Hogarth Press, 1980)
• First transmission: 9.30 4/11/80 BBC Radio 4
• Duration (whole programme): 30 minutes
• Series: Kaleidoscope
• Presenter: Edwin Mullins
• Producer: Paul Campbell [Radio Times says Richard Dunn]
• Transcript: BBC Written Archives
• Recording: BLSA Tape T10780R

Sir Isaiah Berlin at 70

• Interview for External Services Central Talks and Features (Magazines)
• Recording date: 29/5/79
• First transmission: 6/6/79? (processed, i.e. provided with a presentation script, 5/6/79)
• Producer: B J Waller
• Transcript: not at BBC Written Archives unless among unsorted material

Reinhold Niebuhr: A Timeless Prophet

• Interviews
• First transmission: 10.15 pm 18/3/79 BBC Radio 4
• Duration (whole programme): 45 minutes
• Presenter: Vernon Sproxton
• Producer: Peter Firth
• Transcript: BBC Written Archives (presenter’s contributions only); IB’s contribution transcribed by Henry Hardy
• Recording: BLSA Tape T2222W

Interview on Concepts and Categories and Russian Thinkers

• First transmission: 7/2, 14/2, 21/2/79 Belgian Radio (Belgische Radio en Televisie)
• Series: Symposium
• Presenter/Producer: Frans Boenders
• Transcript: made by Henry Hardy
• Recording: BLSA Tape H3762

An Introduction to Philosophy

Interview on Russian Thinkers

Review of V S Pritchett, The Gentle Barbarian (Turgenev)

• First transmission: 9.30 pm 22/6/77 BBC Radio 4
• Duration (whole programme): 30 minutes
• Series: Kaleidoscope
• Presenter: Paul Vaughan
• Producer: Miriam Newman
• Transcript: BBC Written Archives

Decline of Utopian Ideas in the West